NBCU Short Film Festival

The NBCUniversal Short Film Festival is a bicoastal program seeking the next generation of writers, directors, producers & actors, while celebrating i...more

The NBCUniversal Short Film Festival is a bicoastal program seeking the next generation of writers, directors, producers & actors, while celebrating i...more

NBCU Short Film Festival

Lifestyle & Culture • TV Series • 2013

The NBCUniversal Short Film Festival is a bicoastal program seeking the next generation of writers, directors, producers & actors, while celebrating innovative storytelling from diverse backgrounds. Participants have their work introduced to key decisions makers from the entire NBCUniversal family as well as agents, managers, producers, and other top industry players.

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A Fat Girl's Guide to Yoga

Oversized and with a knack for wise cracks, Wendy turns to yoga to lose weight. Winner of the 2nd annual NBCU Short Film Festival.

Thank You for Washing

A quirky love story about a woman who is a germaphobe. Things get dirty in the office when she finds out a co-worker doesn't wash after using the bathroom. This title is the 4th annual NBCU Short Film Festival Winner.

6ft. in 7min

A quirky love story about a woman who is a germaphobe. Things get dirty in the office when she finds out a co-worker doesn't wash after using the bathroom. This title is the 3rd annual NBCU Short Film Festival Winner

Crush the Skull

When a couple's car breaks down on a desolate road, an odd stranger shows up and offers his help. Winner of the 5th Annual NBCU Short Film Festival.

Couples Therapy

Each week Vince and Daniel attend couples therapy and each week they have something to talk about. This title is the 6th annual NBCU Short Film Festival Winner.

Equal Opportunity

Diverse co-workers share their true feelings about one another in the break room. This title is the 1st annual NBCU Short Film Festival Winner.

Love, NY

They don’t speak the same language, but for a young New York City bartender and a pretty Korean tourist, the Big Apple bridges the communication gap over the course of one romantic night. Winner of Best Director at the 7th annual NBCU Short Film Festival.

Voicemail

A man comes home from vacation to find that he has 20 voicemails from the same person.

Bombshell

A ten year-old tomboy must weigh her loyalty to her trusted older brother as the siblings become complicit in a hate crime.

Rattlefly

Sara, a small-town teenage girl with a dead-end existence who finds short-lived hope when she falls in love with the new pastor's luminous daughter.

Hypebeasts

A boy's desire to cop the most coveted pair of sneakers is quickly replaced with the fear that he and his sister are in danger when racial tensions explode in a sneaker line in NYC.

The Incident(s) at Paradise Bay

Some kids get detention, some kids starve in a steel cage under the hot sun with no water all day

#nightslikethese

When a night's escapade takes a disturbing turn for two teen girls, we learn just how disconnected and desensitized social media has made them

Drudge

What was supposed to be a romantic night in for a young couple, quickly turns into a terrifying encounter with Drudge

Grief

A young couple coping with the death of their only son, is haunted by a malevolent spirit in their house.

Seventh Grade

Everyone is growing up except Patrice. But when a raunchy rumor threatens her best friend's reputation, she's forced to join the party and embrace adolescence

The Loyalist

A North Korean general checks in on his daughter at a Swiss boarding school to test her loyalty to her motherland.

Cash for Gold

The film examines the economic and ethnic tensions America grapples with today through a brief encounter between an American woman and an Iranian man and the split-second decision that will turn their meeting into something neither one will ever forget.

Away With the Fairies

Two unlikely people develop a loving friendship. A five year old white girl softens the heart of an old Louisiana Black man as the two bond and make a lasting impression on one another.

The First Session

Two women attempt to repair their relationship with the help of an unconventional therapist and the healing power of the mango.

Inside the Box

When the local District Attorney comes knocking, a Texan cop is forced to face a secret that he’s been hiding from his wife in an effort to keep his family together.

Chula

On the way to a wedding in the coastal town of Camuy, Puerto Rico, a best man discovers the groom is spending his last moments as a bachelor in the unlikeliest of places. While he’s racing to find the groom, his spirited daughter has other plans.

Watch Out

Trapped in a snowbound house, a woman is stalked by an unexpected intruder.

Touch

An elderly Chinese immigrant touches a young boy in a restroom. Despite his harmless intentions, he struggles with his son and the legal system to make the context of his ‘touch’ understood.

Things I Hate: Lady Grooming

THINGS I HATE is a comedic web series about the humiliations and indignities suffered by a nice gal living in New York.

Guest Room

A young woman with Down Syndrome questions her place in the world.

Parachute Girls

A woman shows up at her sister's dinner party after years of no contact and threatens to reveal family secrets to the guests.

Password Deals

The ladies of 4Play imagine a world where the hottest thing on the street isn't drugs, it's passwords.

Rosa

Despite having served the same family for several years, a passionate maid struggles to belong when class divisions clash with her devotion to the boy's family.

GROUNDHOG DAY FOR A BLACK MAN

A Black man continually relives the same day until he can survive an encounter with the police.
Writer & Director: Cynthia Kao
Cast: Burl Moseley, Ryan Stanger, Matt Cordova, Marshall Givens, Celia Finkelstein

BROTHERS

A group of transgender male friends live and love in Brooklyn while navigating a society that challenges their very existence. This episode of the web series focuses on Max as he opens up to his new girlfriend that he is transgender.
Writer & Director: Emmett Lundberg
Cast: Will Krisanda, Julienne Jones, Emmett Jack Lundberg

AKASHI

2017 NBCU Shorts Fest WINNER FOR OUTSTANDING WRITER.
Through two Japanese women from different generations, Akashi shows an “international citizen”'s look at what it means to negotiate love. The SHOULDs, WOULDs and COULDs about choice... and the grace of accepting when there isn’t one.
Writer & Director: Mayumi Yoshida
Cast: Mayumi Yoshida, Yayoi Hirano, Hiro Kanagawa, Linda Uyehara Hoffman

MRS. DRAKE

Laura is a single mother struggling to raise her son Jack. She is thrown into a spiral of confusion and guilt when Jack comes home from school claiming his teacher locked him in a closet.
Director: Caitlin FitzGerald
Writer: Kyle Warren
Cast: Rachel Fowler, Gabra Zackman, Ashton Jonnard

MISERY LOVES COMPANY: PUSSY

Two friends navigate being women of color in a post-election world, while trying (and failing) at a #blessedlife in LA. In this episode, Sara and Emily deal with cat-callers on the street. Director: Gloria Calderon Kellett,
Writers & Cast: Sara Amini and Emily Chang

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